asking this question, it s not who can out debate kamala, who can outdebate biden, i m thinking one thing, who can take it to donald trump. that s the issue, so democrats, talk about donald trump tonight. swat away questions that want to have you fighting other members of the democratic party because you re not going to make that much of a gain there anyway. and do what s needed. go after donald trump. that s what democrats want to know, who can beat this guy. that is correct. former political writer, ron, thank you so much for being with us, ron. you know, i read in the news donald trump distracts so much, obviously. i really wish we didn t have to chase all the racist comments and everything else. we just have to, but while he s doing that, there is a transmission plant in mccomb county michigan that s getting shut down that donald trump
health care and government run health care, and legalizing illegal border crossings, that s the kind of thing that s going to hurt democrats in a place like mccomb county, in a place that swings back and forth between change candidates and is certainly not a hard left county. they voted for obama twice. i m glad you said that. excuse me just one second, i want you as a detroit guy to expand on that because this election is going to be won or lost in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, and florida. what does a voter in mccomb county that voted for barack obama in 2008, 2012, but then donald trump in 2016, think when he s watching some of these candidates say you know what, if somebody krcrosses our southern border illegally, not only are we going to give them health care for life, we re also going to give them a free college education. let s get real for one second
you don t sit on it and hope it hatches. you want to be moving forward, and by the way, for joe, his opponent is not kamala harris. they don t say we need somebody who can beat kamala harris. it s joe biden. remember joe said about rudy giuliani, his idea of a sense is a noun or verb in 9/11, every seasons has to be a noun, a verb and donald trump. if i m working for joe. madame chairwoman. tell us about michigan. it s an interesting state because in 2016, donald trump won it. no republican had won it in a long time, but he won it in two ways, as far as i see it. huge under vote, some 70,000 fewer voters that came out for barack obama, largely seen as liberal african-american voters didn t show up, and he won counties that barack obama had won, mccomb county, and some of the swing counties. how do you win both, and which do you see as a bigger issue? i tell people all the time, we have to walk and chew gum at the same time, we have to do
ii, the 80s, the 90s, stock market in the dot com days. but yes. in part trump is directly responsible for the fed having to cut interest rates because as jay powell has said multiple times on capitol hill and elsewhere, it is the trade war that is slowing things down. business investment down 0.6% in the second quarter. exports down. the corporate tax cut, the entire argument was with that big tax cut we re going to see a boom, a boost in business investment and it s down. it is down. it was good in the first quarter and dropped off in the second. it was pretty good in 2017. but i think everybody, we on this show talked about it multiple times, this would give us a short sugar high from this tax cut. we would get a little bit of business investment, a lot of stock buybacks, a lot of dividends. not a lot of buying new equipment, not a huge amount of investment. that is exactly what we re seeing. ben white, thank you so much. this week one of america s oldest automobile factorie